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Article: Landscape of learning: this dramatic addition to a Lisbon campus makes a powerful formal statement.
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- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus are brothers who graduated in consecutive years from the architecture faculty of Lisbon's Technical University in the late 1980s. Both worked with Goncalo Byrne before establishing their own practice while still in their midtwenties. Their international reputation was established with student halls of residence in Coimbra, which were highly commended in the AR's Emerging Architecture Awards (AR December 2000). That building comprised a slab-like tower with two quite different faces at the corner of the site, and this motif characterizes their next substantial academic project, the Rector's Office at the New University of Lisbon. This ...
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Article: Moods for Moderns
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May 5, 2004 ;
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... ... little concern to the architects of Aires Mateus, the Portuguese firm led by brothers Manuel and Francisco Aires Mateus, whose designs are on display from ... commentator and inspiration for Aires Mateus and their contemporaries. According ...
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